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AMBROSIUS BENSON (?LOMBARDY C. 1495-1550 BRUGES)
A Triptych: the central panel: The Lamentation, with The Deposition beyond; the wings: Saint Anthony Abbot, a burning city beyond; and Saint Francis of Assisi receiving the Stigmata
oil on panel
open: 24 1/4 x 37 1/8 in. (61.6 x 94 cm.); closed: 24 1/4 x 18 3/8 in. (61.6 x 46.7 cm.)
with the arms Gules, a Calvary cross sable, within a chaplet (on the reverse of the left wing)
Provenance
Don Indalecio Cano y de Luis, Fuentesauco, Zamora, by 1929.
Llorente del Rey, Madrid, from whom acquired in 1977 by the following,
The Derksen collection, Rotterdam, and by inheritance until 2012.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 9 February 2012, lot 641 (£194,450), when acquired by the present owner.
Literature
G. Marlier, Ambrosius Benson et la peinture à Bruges au temps de Charles Quint, Damme, 1957, pp. 142 and 282, no. 5, pl. 29.
E. Bermejo, 'Nuevas obras de Benson en España', Archivo Español de Arte, XCIII, April 1970, p. 126, no. 170.
Exhibited
Barcelona, Palacio Nacional, 'Arte en España', part of the Exposición Internacional de Barcelona, 20 May 1929-5 January 1930, no. 2043, as 'Anónimo Segoviano, discípulo de G. David'.
Barcelona, Palacio Alfonso XIII, Segunda Exposición de Anticuarios en España, 16-28 April 1977.
Special notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.